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Rec. vol. iii. pp. 50-52. New anxieties Disaffection of the Princes They demand a Reformation in the Government Cunning of the Duc de Bouillon Imprisonment of M. de Vendôme He escapes The Regent suspects the sincerity of Bouillon Conspiracy of the Ducs de Vendôme and de Retz The Duc de Nevers seizes Mézières Recall of M. d'Epernon Marie de Medicis resolves to resign the Regency, but is dissuaded by her Council Treasonable reports Precarious position of the Queen Levy of troops Manifesto of the Prince de Condé Reply of the Regent Death of the Connétable Duc de Montmorency Bassompierre is appointed Colonel-General of the Swiss Guards The march against M. de Condé Marie endeavours to temporize The price of loyalty The Prince de Condé leaves Paris Christening of the Duc d'Anjou and the Princesse Henriette Marie A temporary calm The Ducs de Vendôme and de Retz excite the Burgundians to revolt The Protestants refuse to join their faction They are compelled to lay down their arms The Prince de Condé marches upon Poitiers The Church "military" The prelate and the populace A governor superseded The Prince is compelled to withdraw to Châtellerault He burns down the episcopal palace The Court proceed to Poitou Their reception The Duc de Vendôme makes his submission The States assemble at Nantes Enormities perpetrated by the troops of M. de Vendôme Folly of that Prince Death of the Prince de Conti A bachelor-Benedict A nom de guerre Majority of Louis XIII The Bed of Justice The assembly of the States-General is deferred The King solicits his mother to retain her authority in the Government Meeting of the States The early years of Louis XIII Charles Albert de Luynes His antecedents His ambition His favour with the young King He is made Governor of Amboise.
Then he quitted the boulevard, the Cirque, the Porte Saint-Martin, descended to the quays, crossed the bridges, reached the suburbs, arrived at the Salpetriere, and came to a halt, where? Precisely at that double number 50-52 with which the reader is acquainted at the Gorbeau hovel.
Maitre Renard was less lucky; all he obtained was leave to place a P in front of his R, and to call himself Prenard; so that the second name bore almost as much resemblance as the first. Now, according to local tradition, this Maitre Gorbeau had been the proprietor of the building numbered 50-52 on the Boulevard de l'Hopital. He was even the author of the monumental window.
Leaving aside this Place Saint-Jacques, which was, as it were, predestined, and which has always been horrible, probably the most mournful spot on that mournful boulevard, seven and thirty years ago, was the spot which even to-day is so unattractive, where stood the building Number 50-52. Bourgeois houses only began to spring up there twenty-five years later. The place was unpleasant.
Restoration at the end of seventy years is predicted. Other Scriptures that foretell the overthrow of Babylon or the return to Jerusalem or both may be found in Is. chs. 13, 14, 21, 44-47; Jer. 28:4-11; chs. 50-52; Ez. ch. 27, etc. The Rise of Persian Power. This was a period of world change. Great empires in rapid succession fell under the power of new and rising kingdoms.
He had arrived in front of No. 50-52, and finding the door fastened, he began to assault it with resounding and heroic kicks, which betrayed rather the man's shoes that he was wearing than the child's feet which he owned.
The inspector muttered: "The long-haired man must be Brujon, and the bearded one Demi-Liard, alias Deux-Milliards." He had dropped his eyelids again, and became absorbed in thought. "As for Father What's-his-name, I think I recognize him. Here, I've burned my coat. They always have too much fire in these cursed stoves. Number 50-52. Former property of Gorbeau." Then he glanced at Marius.
Marius related the adventure to him: That a person with whom he was not acquainted otherwise than by sight, was to be inveigled into a trap that very evening; that, as he occupied the room adjoining the den, he, Marius Pontmercy, a lawyer, had heard the whole plot through the partition; that the wretch who had planned the trap was a certain Jondrette; that there would be accomplices, probably some prowlers of the barriers, among others a certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille; that Jondrette's daughters were to lie in wait; that there was no way of warning the threatened man, since he did not even know his name; and that, finally, all this was to be carried out at six o'clock that evening, at the most deserted point of the Boulevard de l'Hopital, in house No. 50-52.
Evening had arrived, night had almost closed in; on the horizon and in the immensity of space, there remained but one spot illuminated by the sun, and that was the moon. It was rising in a ruddy glow behind the low dome of Salpetriere. Marius returned to No. 50-52 with great strides. The door was still open when he arrived.
The ground-floor of Number 50-52, a sort of dilapidated penthouse, served as a wagon-house for market-gardeners, and no communication existed between it and the first story. It was separated by the flooring, which had neither traps nor stairs, and which formed the diaphragm of the building, as it were.
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